#anyway long story short

[fandxmslxt69]

Happppy birthday Clem!!!!! (HUGGGS) I hope you have nice plans (on top of this fun event!) I'm super interested in the character association thing - who would you put me with? I've never done one before so I'm all yours, baby! 🤣 Also very happy for you to include men, I am often told I have some masculine energy about me, which is fine. Additionally!!! I just want to remind you how sweet and wonderful and funny you are - your posts and dialogues between other users always make me smile. Thanks for being here ❤️

OMG HIIIIIIII!!!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU I AM SENDING YOU BIG BIG HUGS !!!!

lets get to business.

LGG you truly wholeheartedly give me full Thor energy. Maybe a sort of Tony Stark...? Mostly Thor

in the kindest way possible you both are the kind of people to say the most batshit crazy stuff ever with the most straight face and its hilarious. you both radiate comfort and so so many silly fun vibes!!! you're both the kind of friends i would go to if i a) needed someone to kick ass for me or b) someone who can shove away my worries with a whole bunch of laughter and crazy ideas.

the Tony Stark energy comes from the also loud wild ideas and the big ambition vibes. idk to me Thor and Tony are the guys who would get along really well had they had the chance so your vibes just stick in their perfectly.

there's some Loki vibes but thats probably because you're as stunning and beautiful as he is (did you see that. smooth ass pick up line...mr lgg watch your BACK.)

#anyway LONG STORY SHORT #thor vibes #thor is also very Taylor Swift coded #so are you #its giving like. 1989 energy #yknow yknow #omg sorry guys my brain is FRIED today im trying to force my last two nerve cells to spark #clem talks <3 #Clem's Birthday Hang Out

[crystal-lillies]

a rambling retrospective on the last year as a new Critter

So, it's been about a year (a little over) since I fully dipped into the Critical Role fixation.

Last year around this time, we got the other Halloween episode in Whitestone, just before the Mighty Nein Reunited two-parter, and gee, we just got a Halloween episode in Whitestone and we're about to go into a Mighty Nein Reunion this week! And a LIVE show at that, the first one since pre-COVID!

And last year at this time, I was just starting into a work D&D group and I'd just gotten my first set of dice at a renaissance festival, and I'd just bounced around a bunch of compilation videos, several oneshots, and some out-of-context Campaign 2, along with The Legend of Vox Machina season 1. I was just barely dipping my toe into the wider CR + TTRPG world.

So much has happened since then.

Every Thursday since that Halloween in Whitestone last year with Bells Hells, I've been tuning into the stream (despite the ET time difference) and sometimes even making it through all the way (for some exhaustion points that are still worth it). I watched more of the oneshots (the Call of Cthulu one and Nautilus Ark being particular favorites I've seen in 2023). I've also watched a lot more of Campaign 2 and even went back into Campaign 1, bought myself some merch (I'm actually wearing the Hot Topic Ashton shirt, haha), and I got friends into The Legend of Vox Machina before and after Season 2 dropped on Amazon.

I even wrote a little fic when Matt slammed us all with the Apogee Solstice on the 8th anniversary session :)

And, as anyone who's been following me has noticed, I got the Exquisite Exandria cookbook and have been making the recipes from it whenever I can, and that's also been amazing.

Plus, I've watched some Dimension 20 (Mentopolis was incredible and Burrow's End rn is fascinating) and dipped into Worlds Beyond Number thanks to that.

My work D&D group has since dissolved, but I took a leap of faith and I joined a pickup oneshot game of D&D5e in April, and around late June/early July, the DM of that game invited me with a few others to a campaign set in that homebrew world the oneshot was based in.

We started playing at the end of July, and I've been having such a blast. Each session is so much fun and the highlight of any given week we play. I cannot believe I went so long in my life without having D&D until this point, honestly. But I'm so glad I have it now.

All of this to say, a lot has happened in the last year, and I'm so glad to have stumbled into the Critter community and gained knowledge of Critical Role and the wider TTRPG sphere as a whole. The fandom has been so welcoming and supportive in a way I haven't felt from many fandoms in my experience. It feels like it's been more than just a year of being invested in Critical Role, but I suppose that the fervent intensity of the story and the people involved and the genuine excitement in front of and behind the cameras.

I guess, just... thank you for everything. And here's to many more years of Critterdom to come :)

Love y'all very much, and is it Thursday yet?

#flowerspeak #personal #critical role #long post #dnd #d&d #dungeons and dragons #bells hells #mighty nein #tlovm #the legend of vox machina #I technically wrote a post like this on my phone about a week ago #but my phone tumblr fucking ate it and didn't save the draft #so I was upset ghdfghfd and wanted to wait to do it on my computer #so timing wise I am a bit late on this personal retrospective #but it's close enough #anyway long story short #im very happy to be in the critter community #even as a small entity just vibing w everyone #and i v much look forward to all the fun stuff to come #a bit jealous of those in london but man so excited for them too #i hope everyone has fun

[pinkieroy]

I'll never understand jealous people

#just saw a video of a woman saying that when she and her husband started dating they agreed to delete #everyone they had some sort of a thing with (even just a conversation - i'm assuming the flirty kind) from every social media #(and then she went on to describe weird shit they still do like not being allowed to go out unless they are together) #and I just don't get any of that #their brains work at a totally different wave length than mine like sure maybe it works for them and they are happy like that #but if someone tried to impose any rules like the ones she was talking about i would just go no thanks #maybe it's because I fit the pda autism profile lol #(so yeah my brain really works differently) #text #personal #even reminded me of the time my ex asked if she could post a selfie (because of what she was wearing i assumed) #and i was like sure #but my brain was going a mile a minute wondering why she was asking that because why ? i just don't get why i would get a say in that #anyway long story short #i just don't understand this sort of thing

[vickorydickorydock]

I get why giving the turtles an age order can be fun sometimes, but I hate that assigning oldest-middle-youngest dynamics so often comes at the expense of canon characterization

#tmnt #this applies to all versions #except rise i guess since they canonically have an age difference #but the others don't #they are all the same age #leo is the most responsible and the leader but he is not actually older than the rest #mikey can be immature and carefree but that doesnt automatically make him the youngest #it's honestly kind of weird how stringent fandom can be with the 'age equals character trait' thing #like just bc one sibling is older does not make them magically more responsible or wiser #anyway long story short #this is why i will never use youngest/oldest descriptors in my tmnt fics #ive seen people base their analysis off 'oh hes a middle child that why blah blah' #when NO it's not canon it's just widely spread popular headcanon #vickysturts

[cowardishh]

guys I bought a motorcycle and suddenly i have a hyperfixation on something that isn't a piece of media for the first time in my life. how the hell am I supposed to hyperixate on something that has no fanfiction. my friend suggested I draw an anthropomorphized version of my bike and the brain rot is getting bad enough that I'm considering it. is there a motorcycle side of tumblr? where are the weirdos with bikes I want to be friends

#my bike is a 94 kawasaki ninja and i love her so much #do i actually know how to ride yet? #.... not really #am i spending every waking moment thinking about this bike? #yes #do i have the time or the money for this bike? #debatable #anyway long story short #mocycle #motorcycles #kawasaki ninja #<3

[rubberduckyrye]

Google how do you draw faster without losing quality--

#Giving myself the bad feels because I want to draw more often and stuff but #my art takes me so long and takes so much energy ;~; #I wish it didn't... #I miss being able to draw nearly every day #I wish I could draw fast #aaaa #My brain was made for words not for art #I think like that's kind of the trade off #I think in words and most people think in images and pictures apparently #I have to actively TRY to get a picture in my head and tbh it often is only very brief #Compsition was really hard for me before I started using my 3D models #then I could tweak the poses until it felt right and THEN I could draw #But posing is also like #kinda hard??? #it's tedious I think #I might look up how to make different hand poses and stuff just so that's not like #something I have to fuss with every time #like if I make a hand pose and save it then I can reuse it #that kind of idea #Hands are always really annoying and hard to pose so that would probably be for the best #at least it'll speed up posing #I might also make some generic poses like walking and running #just bases to work from to make more unique poses for art pieces #Anyway long story short #I'm a slow artist because I'm a fast writer #that might just be something I need to live with #And I need to find ways to short cut the process for art so it's not nearly as miserable to draw for me #I've been kind of tempted to try out making 3D models of all the characters I want to or like to draw #And use special methods to just use that to make line art for drawing because boy can I NOT be fucked to do line art #I've been kind of wanting to get more into 3D stuff lately too so idk

[prosebushpatch]

Today's post is my personal musings about AI, along with some encouragement for artists out there. In a world where we're increasingly isolated by algorithms, your art matters more than ever.

#rose and rambles #houuuuuuugh #i hope this all makes sense as trains of thoughts go #tried to anticipate arguments ect. #anyway long story short #celebrate the artists you love and keep making things for you and those 30 sickos as that post goes

[stil-lindigo]

the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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#cw: emotional abuse #cw: gaslighting #cw: animal death #charity - a god whose name was only ever meant to be ironic #i love playing with the concept of religion like this #im not religious at all but i did go to a christian school for twelve years #and i remember learning about the story of abraham. who long story short gets told by god to kill his son to prove his love for god. #and at the veeeery last minute god goes sike! this was a test to see if you'd do it! here's a lamb to slaughter instead #but the whole concept of that exchange in and of itself is so #anyway #one thing i meant to include in the creative notes but i ran out of room for is that charity never calls cunning by his name. #it's just “fox”. which was a small touch to indicate that he never acknowledged cunning's identity outside of being something exploitable. #but for all charity's hidden disdain for cunning #he still stole all his strengths and coveted them. he became known as the fox god. #so maybe some part of cunning survived. despite everything. #“give me your heart.” #“my god. it had always been yours.” #comic art #hearteaters #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics #one more comic to go until im finished with this collection!!

[thedaintydoe]

monday: he said the car was somewhere over here…

agent rose: shit, it’s monday. what the hell is he doing here?

#… #ya know canonically Monday doesn’t show up until damien has already been found #but he absolutely would also look for him #behind Tuesday’s back #if he came before he was found #just cuz he has more experience with shady stuff #which he assumes damien somehow got tangled up in #anyway long story short #it’s Monday who’s come to see the car lol

[rosicheeks]

What’s ur Snapchat 👀

💖

#premium snapchat I should say 🥰 #I haven’t been promoting it that much lately #cause when I move idk how my snap will transform #but I love my snap babes so much #it’s my lil snap fam and I wish I could kiss every single one of them 🥺 #if you’re interested - $25 per month / $50 per year / $75 lifetime #I’m so sad I haven’t been able to talk to my snap babes as much as I want to lately #just with moving and everything else going on #I haven’t had much time #buuuuut when I move I’m hoping I’ll have plenty of time to talk and chill on snap 😇 #anyway long story short #if you’re actually interested feel free to send me a message and I’ll reply privately 💖 #ask #anon

[lotus-pear]

bsd rewatch w my friend means obligatory art of my fav found family ever

#WAAAAAAAAAUUUUGHHHHHHHH I MISS THEM SO FUCKING MUCH YOU GUYS GENUINELY DON'T UNDERSTAND.............................................. #LIKE. NOT A DAY GOES BY WHERE I DONT THINK ABT THEM UEUUEUEUEUEUEUUEUEUEUEUEUEUEUUEUEUEUEUEUEUEUEUEUUEUEUEUEUEUE😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #bro i didn't mean to make atsushi that short LMFAO it's ok tho bc he's their little boy. their son #literally was in the trenches drawing kunikida bc i've been drawing twinks for so long i forgot how to draw actual MEN😭😭 #when will my family return from the war..................................................................... #rewatching bsd made me realize its just a rly shitty slice of life romcom featuring ml dazai and his tired work partner/husband #and the story of how they got their first kid. sopping wet pathetic kitten of a boy they picked up off the riverbank #anyway theyre all so dear to me you don't understandddddd i love these dumbass partners and their little tiger boy :(((((((((((((( #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #atsushi nakajima #nakajima atsushi #doppo kunikida #kunikida doppo #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #kunikidazai #knkdz #lotus draws

[ruporas]

feast (ID in alt)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #tw blood #im posting this so late because october escaped me Suddenly.. hello.... #i wanted to make it a photoset with this other vampire vw wip but i don't think i'm finishing it any time soon and the mood of it is #completely different anyway. also i don't think i ever shared anything about my vampire au on here !!! it's all old art by now so im shy lo #but maybe i'll do a photodump of it. long story short vash is a vampire since birth and ww is a human vampire hunter that turns during thei #travels together due to EoM experiments + getting vash to drink from him at some point. #humans turn once they get bitten but bc ww has been experimented on #& got bitten by a bunch of human turned vampires thruout his hunts he thought it wouldn't be a problem for vash to drink from him but alas. #theyre both ok though theyre traveling together definitely not hating themselves for what theyve become and feeling guilty for what theyve #done to each other. theyre completely normal about it. the biting part is really appealing to me in vampire aus so i draw it a lot but #in reality vash only drank from ww once and ww mightve done it twice under the realization he might actually die otherwise #since he wont drink from humans after being turned.... he's combatting the 5 stages of grief at all times #if this is all nonsense im sorry DMGKSDF I'M NOT good at explaining and this au came from nowhere in the depths of my mind its a mess #ruporas art

[lazylittledragon]

what do you mean youre technically a detransitioner cause of terf bullshit?

it's a v long story but i detransitioned for a couple of years when i was 16/17, for multiple reasons but mostly because i fell into the blaire white/kalvin garrah chamber of "you have to be This way to be trans otherwise you're not real".

i was already Deeply insecure about myself and my 'passing' and i was led to believe that i couldn't want to wear makeup or skirts, and i couldn't choose not to have bottom surgery, and i couldn't do anything but bind for 12+ hours a day to the point that my ribcage is still misshapen. basically i thought that if i wasn't suffering enough doing 'feminine' things, i couldn't really be trans, so i should just go back to being a girl and suck it up.

the terf bullshit is because i'd seen a lot of terfs/detransitioners talking about the 'dangers' of testosterone and how it would turn me into a horrible ugly evil monster and how there was nothing worse than wanting to be a man. which combined with 'you need to fully medically transition to be valid at all' creates some very dangerous and upsetting feelings to cope with.

it also came from trying really hard to put myself in a little box before i realised that my sexuality/gender are very fluid and it's FINE for me not to have a label and just do whatever i want. when i was 19 or so i went back to using they/them (and eventually he/him) and changed my name again because even though i like doing 'feminine' things, i don't want to be seen as a woman.

tldr: i was conditioned by transphobic/terf rhetorics to think that i was being trans the 'wrong' way so i couldn't be trans at all, so i believed i must actually be a girl if i still wanted to do 'feminine' things. nowadays i am a transmasc who does feminine things because i don't give two shits about what any transmed prick thinks of me anymore.

#ramble #ok to reblog btw i'm fine with this being shared #this was meant to be a short version but this is just the whole story whoops #sorry i realised the way i phrased it sounded like i'm the detrans you see in the news #i'm Technically a detransitioner because a lot of detrans stats are people who go on to RETRANSITION #because detransition is often because of social stigma and not because you realised you weren't trans #so anyway. terfs are cancer and if you don't think their bs is harming children you're wrong #i know it's easy to say 'you should've used your brain and realised those people were wrong' #but like. when you're 16 you're SO impressionable. even if you think you aren't #especially when you're watching people who have been transitioning longer than you and you assume they know everything #i was in my mid-late teens when 'transtrender' videos were MASSIVE and i believed it!!! and i was Not nice about those people #all they made me believe was that being trans couldn't be colourful and comfy and fun. it just had to be Pain #i hope everyone who contributed to the 'you need to be this way to be trans' mindset knows how much hurt they've caused #nowadays i don't care. go and be stargender. we have actual problems to deal with not debates about neopronouns #anyway this was long. that's the story

[doctorsiren]

I saw an interesting post a while back that said “Capcom made us [Miles and Diego/Godot] only have like two(?) interactions because they knew we would be unstoppable with a brother dynamic” and tbh it stuck with me bc it was intriguing.

So yeah that potential brotherhood, but that Godot/Diego AU I made (that I still need a name for)

Also I bet Gregory Edgeworth would have smelled like a bit like coffee, and so Diego just reminds Miles of that comforting presence 😭 (the von Karma estate was a tea household, so he didn’t smell much coffee after DL-6 and didn’t realize how much he missed it/reminded him of his father)

#doctorsiren #ace attorney #ace attorney au #diego armando #prosecutor godot #miles edgeworth #comic #ace attorney fanart #good guy godot au #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #loving the inconsistent styles for Miles in the panels HAHA #that post also made me think of an AU where after the Fawles case. miles goes to Diego asking for help because he can’t stop thinking about #what happened on the stand and he can’t go to his mentor bc he’s showing weakness and that’s not allowed #and essentially long story short. miles decided to drop prosecuting after one case and be a defense attorney and he asks Diego to protect #him from von karma and also to be his mentor #so it’s like Mia and Phoenix but it’s Diego and Miles and then after Diego gets poisoned. Mia has to mentor Miles and she’s a little #hesitant at first because of how cocky he was in that trial but she sees that he’s genuinely trying to be better #also Diego would ask miles: you’re trying to be what von Karma wants you to be…well..what do YOU want to be? #and miles would answer: I want to be my dad #JUST LIKE IN MY 1985 ANIMATIC #ANYWAYS I’M BRAINROTTING SO HARD RN EXCUSE ME LMAO #ALSO MY FRIEND SAID THAT IN THIS AU (the one in the post) DIEGO AND PHOENIX ARE ENEMIES TO BROTHERS #and that’s the best thing I’ve heard all day it’s such a funny statement AND IT’S TRUE!!!!

[stargirl230]

quick sketch + paintover while i try to remember how to art again...also I think nami deserves more fight scenes

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

#my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #one piece #op #op nami #nami #cat burglar nami #so kind of my artblock to disappear as soon as i have to study for exams :'D #long story short i was artblocked and extremely ill for a month #and on top of that ive been doing a lot of zine work #its some pretty cool stuff so be in the lookout! #anyway the point is #relearning how to draw is so humbling #oh and unrelated but happy ace day! #im going to a drag event today for the first time im so excited :D #bro why did tumblr nuke the quality #click for quality!!!

[the-owl-tree]

pwease frostfur she’s my favorite girl ever i love her

im sorry brightheart ended up taking more focus but i couldnt resist drawing these two

+textless version

#warrior cats #brightheart #frostfur #deer scribbles #took some inspurration from myself. could not resist #long story short. kid called me ugly for some severe skin issues i was having (it was pretty bad #to the point i was having mobility issues) #and my mom's response was to tell me to punch him next time he said that if she hadnt sorted it out before then LOL #anyways i wish brightheart got that level of support